Ferulary
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Schoolmastership. obsolete, rare, uncountable
- 1 Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish. obsolete, rare
"Even academic translators of Jonson’s era like Barten Holyday (Persins, 1616) were not literalists. Holyday tells us that he freed himself from “ferulary [‘schoolmasterish’] supersitition to the letter” and took “the ancient libertie of a Translator [to use] a moderate paraphrase, where the obscurities did more require it.”"
Example
More examples"Even academic translators of Jonson’s era like Barten Holyday (Persins, 1616) were not literalists. Holyday tells us that he freed himself from “ferulary [‘schoolmasterish’] supersitition to the letter” and took “the ancient libertie of a Translator [to use] a moderate paraphrase, where the obscurities did more require it.”"
Etymology
From ferule + -ary.
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